Edinburg Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Edinburg, Texas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Edinburg: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Edinburg spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 150 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.8 minutes.

Edinburg holds about 0.3% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Edinburg would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,864 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Edinburg	18.0 min	36.1 min	150 hrs/yr	$4,660	3,015
Texas	22.8 min	45.6 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,888	1,441
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Edinburg Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.0 minutes to get to work in Edinburg. That's 20% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Edinburg

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Edinburg: 22.5 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Edinburg: 3.3 times less than the Texas average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Edinburg, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Commute Mode Trends in Edinburg, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Edinburg get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.8%	2.9%	4.0%	1.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	90.2%	2.6%	4.0%	2.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	91.3%	1.4%	4.8%	1.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	91.4%	1.8%	4.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	89.8%	2.8%	4.6%	2.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	88.8%	3.8%	4.6%	2.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	89.3%	3.8%	4.0%	2.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	88.3%	3.8%	4.5%	2.5%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	88.7%	3.8%	3.9%	2.7%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	90.3%	3.8%	2.6%	2.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	89.9%	3.5%	3.2%	2.3%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	87.9%	6.2%	2.8%	1.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	87.1%	7.6%	2.4%	1.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.4%	8.9%	3.3%	2.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.5%	9.5%	3.1%	2.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.6%	10.7%	3.2%	1.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 91.4%. Overall it fell from 89.8% in 2009 to 83.6% in 2024, down 6.2 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Edinburg: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 10.7% in 2024, up 7.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Edinburg

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Edinburg?

The bars show when commuters in Edinburg leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Texas for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.4%

Edinburg Texas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Edinburg is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 8.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 52.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.1%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Edinburg, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Edinburg Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Edinburg next to Texas and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Edinburg	Texas	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:45 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:48 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:47 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:51 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:50 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Edinburg were on the road by 7:50 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:46 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Edinburg now leave 12 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Edinburg has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Edinburg's commute time compare?

Metric	Edinburg	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.0 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.7%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Edinburg is 18.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Edinburg, Texas.

Is commuting expensive in Edinburg, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 150 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,660 at a typical national wage. That's 21% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Edinburg, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Edinburg, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Edinburg, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.